http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,149250,00.html
Apparently the shooter wore some type of body armor, rendering the good samaritan's gun about useless. It would have been wise to pop the bastard in the head instead (maybe he tried, I don't know) or use a long rifle at distance instead.
Mark Wilson is a true hero. What a shame that he did not survive his heroic act. I can't imagine the horror he must have felt as he saw that his pistol rounds had no effect.
Oh, I have to comment on this part:
Apparently the shooter wore some type of body armor, rendering the good samaritan's gun about useless. It would have been wise to pop the bastard in the head instead (maybe he tried, I don't know) or use a long rifle at distance instead.
Mark Wilson is a true hero. What a shame that he did not survive his heroic act. I can't imagine the horror he must have felt as he saw that his pistol rounds had no effect.
Oh, I have to comment on this part:
That is baloney. As far as I know people don't use semi auto rifles with pistol grips and 30 round mags to hunt deer. Short sighted comparisons like that don't do weapons rights any good. I've heard of people using SKS rifles for deer hunting but bolt action rifles with 3, 4 or 5 bullet capacity are much more common. In fact each AK bullet is far less powerful than a typical hunting round (30-06 or .308), the problem is that he had so many to go around and could easily fire them from the hip. Can't do that with a hunting rifle. A hunting rifle could have been used to take out Arroyo though.[b said:Quote[/b] ]Only two stories mentioned that the AK-47 was a semi-automatic, not a machine gun, and, while it is understandable, none of the articles provided context by explaining that Arroyo’s weapon functioned the same as deer hunting rifles, firing the same caliber bullets, at the same rapidity, and doing the same damage